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"The most valuable aspect of religion," writes Robert Lawrence Smith, "is that it provides us with a framework for living. I have always felt that the beauty and power of Quakerism is that it exhorts us to live more simply, more truthfully, more charitably." Taking his inspiration from the teaching of the first Quaker, George Fox, and from his own nine generations of Quaker forebears, Smith speaks to all of us who are seeking a way to make our lives simpler, more meaningful, and more useful. Beginning with the Quaker belief that "There is that of God in every person," Smith explores the ways in which we can harness the inner light of God that dwells in each of us to guide the personal choices and challenges we face every day. How to live and speak truthfully. How to listen for, trust, and act on our conscience. How to make our work an expression of the best that is in us. Using vivid examples from his own life, Smith writes eloquently of Quaker Meeting, his decision to fight in World War II, and later to oppose the Vietnam War. From his work as an educator and headmaster to his role as a husband and father, Smith quietly convinces that the lofty ideals of Quakerism offer all of us practical tools for leading a more meaningful life. His book culminates with a moving letter to his grandchildren which imparts ten lessons for "letting your life speak."
Winner, The Early American Literature Book Prize Ethnology and
Empire tells stories about words and ideas, and ideas about words
that developed in concert with shifting conceptions about Native
peoples and western spaces in the nineteenth-century United States.
Contextualizing the emergence of Native American linguistics as
both a professionalized research discipline and as popular literary
concern of American culture prior to the U.S.-Mexico War, Robert
Lawrence Gunn reveals the manner in which relays between the
developing research practices of ethnology, works of fiction,
autobiography, travel narratives, Native oratory, and sign
languages gave imaginative shape to imperial activity in the
western borderlands. In literary and performative settings that
range from the U.S./Mexico borderlands to the Great Lakes region of
Tecumseh's Pan-Indian Confederacy and the hallowed halls of learned
societies in New York and Philadelphia, Ethnology and Empire models
an interdisciplinary approach to networks of peoples, spaces, and
communication practices that transformed the boundaries of U.S.
empire through a transnational and scientific archive. Emphasizing
the culturally transformative impacts western expansionism and
Indian Removal, Ethnology and Empire reimagines U.S. literary and
cultural production for future conceptions of hemispheric American
literatures.
Would Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) between the nations of the
Middle East and the United States be beneficial? What type of
economic benefits could be expected? Since the FTA with Jordon was
signed in October 2000, Jordanian exports to the US increased from
$72.8 million in 2000 to a stunning $1.267 billion in 2005 and the
exports were so large that the bilateral balance of trade shifted
from a Jordanian deficit of $239 million in 2000 to a surplus of
$624 million in 2005. Would other Middle Eastern countries derive
similar benefits? Lawrence uses the Global Trade Analysis Project
(GTAP) model of world trade and economic activity to analyze the
expected trade and other economic impacts of the prospective FTA
and to examine bilateral trade and investment flows, bilateral
trade frictions, and implications of the prospective accords for
the bilateral, regional, and global trade relations of the
countries involved.
In 1963, John F. Kennedy said that "a rising tide lifts all the
boats. And a partnership, by definition, serves both parties,
without domination or unfair advantage." US international economic
policy since World War II has been based on the premise that
foreign economic growth is in America's economic, as well as
political and security, self-interest. The bursting of the
speculative dot.com bubble, slowing US growth, and the global
financial crisis and its aftermath, however, have led to radical
changes in Americans' perceptions of the benefits of global trade.
Many Americans believe that trade with emerging-market economies is
the most important reason for US job loss, especially in
manufacturing, and is detrimental to American welfare and an
important source of wage inequality. Several prominent economists
have reinforced these public concerns. In this study, Lawrence
Edwards and Robert Z. Lawrence confront these fears through an
extensive survey of the empirical literature and in depth analyses
of the evidence. Their conclusions contradict several popular
theories about the negative impact of US trade with developing
countries. They find considerable evidence that while adjusting to
foreign economic growth does present America with challenges,
growth in emerging-market economies is in America's economic
interest. It is hard, of course, for Americans to become used to a
world in which the preponderance of economic activity is located in
Asia. But one of America's great strengths is its adaptability. And
if it does adapt, the American economy can be buoyed by that rising
tide.
Trade policy has moved from the wings onto center stage. Between
1992 and 2000, U.S. exports rose by 55 percent. By the year 2000,
trade summed to 26 percent of U.S. GDP, the United States imported
almost two thirds of its oil, and was the world's largest host
country for foreign investors. America's interest in a more open
and prosperous foreign market is now squarely economic. This volume
presents cases on five important trade negotiations all focused on
?making the rules, ? or the process of establishing how the trade
system would operate. The cases not only explore the changing
substance of trade agreements, but delve into the negotiation
process. They explore not just the what of trade, but the who, how,
and why of decision-making. By examining some of the most important
recent negotiations, the reader can come to understand not just the
larger issues surrounding trade, but how players seek to exert
influence and how the system is evolving on day-to-day basis. This
book presents a coherent description of the facts, that will allow
for discussion and independent conclusions about policies,
politics, and processes. An upcoming companion volume (ISBN
0-88132-363-2) will offer cases on settling trade disputes-or
attempting to settle them. In both volumes particular attention is
given to how trade decision-making occurs within the context of the
American political system The two volumes will also be sold as a
set ISBN 0-88132-364-0. Information on the second volume and the
set will be available in the future.
Between 1992 and 2000, US exports rose by 55 percent. By the year
2000, trade summed to 26 percent of US GDP, and the United States
imported almost two-thirds of its oil and was the world's largest
host country for foreign investors. America's interest in a more
open and prosperous foreign market is now squarely economic. These
case studies in multilateral trade policymaking and dispute
settlement explore the changing substance of trade agreements and
also delve into the negotiation process - the who, how, and why of
decision making. These books present a coherent description of the
facts that will allow for discussion and independent conclusions
about policies, politics, and processes. Volume I presents five
cases on trade negotiations that have had important effects on
trade policy rulemaking, as well as an analytic framework for
evaluating these negotiations. Volume II presents six case studies
on key trade disputes. A companion book for professors answers the
questions raised in the case study volumes.
The relationship between the United States and the Muslim/Arab
world has deteriorated since September 11, 2001. The United States
is widely perceived as targeting Arab nations for their oil,
especially in the wake of the war in Iraq. Measures are needed on
both sides to build a more peaceful, prosperous Middle East. A free
trade agreement with Egypt could be an instrument toward achieving
this goal. If the United States were to select its FTA partners
based on relative political importance in their regions, Egypt
would top the list among Arab states. This study considers the key
economic and political characteristics of Egypt as a potential FTA
partner. It examines the benefits and challenges in pursuing
bilateral negotiations with Egypt, examines the Bush proposal for a
regional arrangement, and assesses the impact of a prospective FTA
on other trading partners, on the Middle East/Arab world, and on
the multilateral trading system. If an FTA with Egypt materializes,
the gains can be substantial to all parties involved.
How important are the remaining barriers to integration in
international goods markets and how would eliminating them affect
global and individual countries' welfare? This book studies these
questions using the most comprehensive price data available.
Bradford and Lawrence find that there is considerable market
fragmentation among industrial countries -- that is, firms charging
different prices for similar products in different national markets
-- even among countries with low tariff barriers. The authors
estimate that integration among the eight countries in their sample
-- Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, the
United Kingdom and the United States -- would raise global GDP by
more than $500 billion, or about 2 percent. Remarkably, almost half
the global gain in these eight countries could be reaped if Japan
alone eliminated its international fragmentation.
International trade accounts for only a small share of growing
income inequality and labor-market displacement in the United
States. Lawrence deconstructs the gap in real blue-collar wages and
labor productivity growth between 1981 and 2006 and estimates how
much higher these wages might have been had income growth been
distributed proportionately and how much of the gap is due to
measurement and technical factors about which little can be
done.While increased trade with developing countries may have
played some part in causing greater inequality in the 1980s,
surprisingly, over the past decade the impact of such trade on
inequality has been relatively small. Many imports are no longer
produced in the United States, and US goods and services that do
compete with imports are not particularly intensive in unskilled
labor. Rising income inequality and slow real wage growth since
2000 reflect strong profit growth, much of which may be cyclical,
and dramatic income gains for the top 1 percent of wage earners, a
development that is more closely related to asset-market
performance and technological and institutional innovations rather
than conventional trade in goods and services. The minor role of
trade, therefore, suggests that any policy that focuses narrowly on
trade to deal with wage inequality and job loss is likely to be
ineffective. Instead, policymakers should (a) use the tax system to
improve income distribution and (b) implement adjustment policies
to deal more generally with worker and community dislocation.
One of the unique aspects of the WTO as an international
organization is that it authorizes members to retaliate against
violations by raising tariffs. These authorizations have become
increasingly common and increasingly controversial. In this
analysis of the retaliation system, Robert Lawrence considers the
guiding principles that govern responses to WTO violations,
examines how these principles are implemented in practice, and
considers options for reform.
This is a new release of the original 1940 edition.
Winner, The Early American Literature Book Prize Ethnology and
Empire tells stories about words and ideas, and ideas about words
that developed in concert with shifting conceptions about Native
peoples and western spaces in the nineteenth-century United States.
Contextualizing the emergence of Native American linguistics as
both a professionalized research discipline and as popular literary
concern of American culture prior to the U.S.-Mexico War, Robert
Lawrence Gunn reveals the manner in which relays between the
developing research practices of ethnology, works of fiction,
autobiography, travel narratives, Native oratory, and sign
languages gave imaginative shape to imperial activity in the
western borderlands. In literary and performative settings that
range from the U.S./Mexico borderlands to the Great Lakes region of
Tecumseh's Pan-Indian Confederacy and the hallowed halls of learned
societies in New York and Philadelphia, Ethnology and Empire models
an interdisciplinary approach to networks of peoples, spaces, and
communication practices that transformed the boundaries of U.S.
empire through a transnational and scientific archive. Emphasizing
the culturally transformative impacts western expansionism and
Indian Removal, Ethnology and Empire reimagines U.S. literary and
cultural production for future conceptions of hemispheric American
literatures.
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